The stamp was part of the American Sports Series and designed by Juan Lopez-Bonilla, showing Clemente in a Pittsburgh Pirates cap with the Puerto Rican flag in the background.
Roberto Clemente was a right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates for 18 seasons, playing his entire major league career with the team from 1955 until his death in 1972.
Clemente was the first player from the Caribbean and Latin America to win a World Series as a starting position player (1960), to receive an NL MVP Award (1966), and to receive a World Series MVP Award (1971). Additionally, he was a two-time World Series champion.
During his career, he won 12 All-Star games, 11 Golden Glove awards, and was the National League's most valuable player in 1966.
He was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, becoming the first player from the Caribbean and second of Hispanic descent (after Lefty Gomez in 1972) to be honoured in the Hall of Fame.
He was killed in a plane crash on New Year's Eve, 1972, while traveling to Nicaragua to deliver aid to earthquake victims.
He is remembered for being both an outstanding athlete and humanitarian.
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